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16 With a second season of The Handmaid’s Tale recently announced and Alias Grace coming to a (Netflix) screen near you this autumn, Margaret Atwood fever is in the air. But which of her novels is your favourite? From Man Booker winning The Blind Assassin to the wickedly funny Stone Mattress to the mesmerising world…

Introducing the Virago Modern Classic Book Club August pick: In A Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor. A love story for the ages, this August we are reading Elizabeth Taylor’s In A Summer Season. Will you be reading along? “You taste of rain,” he said, kissing her. “People say I married her for her money,” he thought contentedly,…

A childhood favourite that deserves a re-read. ‘Oh, it seems so wonderful that I’m going to live with you and belong to you. I’ve never belonged to anybody’ When a scrawny, freckled girl with bright red hair arrives on Prince Edward Island, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are taken by surprise; they’d asked for a quiet…

Tense and thrilling, Stella Duffy’s brilliant new psychological suspense, The Hidden Room, publishes next week and we’ve got five hardbacks to give away. To be in with the chance of winning, enter your details in the box below, making sure to read our terms and conditions first. Winners will be announced on 6th July. Good…

To celebrate the release of Roger Michell’s adaptation of My Cousin Rachel, we’ve teamed up with Fox to offer you the chance to win a beautiful boxed set of Daphne Du Maurier novels and a signed film poster. The box set contains five gorgeous VMC editions – My Cousin Rachel, Rebecca, Frenchman’s Creek, Jamaica Inn and…

This July marks fifty years since the creation of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, which decriminalized homesexual acts between men in England and Wales, and birthed the modern LGBTQ movement in Britain. With Pride Festival kicking off on Saturday 24th June, there couldn’t be a better time to shed some light on this (somewhat)…

We are living in turbulent times. As the 100th day of Donald Trump’s Presidency is almost upon us, Radical Hope – Carolina de Robertis’ collection of love letters from diverse and award-winning authors – offers an antidote to despair. We have 100 copies of Radical Hope to give away to Virago readers. Simply tell us who you would…

On 1st June, we publish Rachel Seiffert’s hotly anticipated new novel. A Boy in Winter. Rachel is perhaps best known for her novel The Dark Room, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2001 and inspired the film Lore in 2012. A Boy in Winter begins early on a grey November morning in…

On 14th April The Handmaiden, a sumptuous and exhilarating period thriller inspired by Sarah Waters’ best-selling novel Fingersmith, will be released in cinemas around the UK. To celebrate this release, Virago is offering one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to see the film, plus a film poster, t-shirt, badges and…

To celebrate publication of In the Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant, we’ve teamed up with Ponti’s Italian Kitchen to offer one Virago reader the chance to win dinner at their restaurant in London or Sheffield. The prize includes dinner for the reader and a guest, a bottle of Ponti’s homemade limoncello and a signed hardback…